Gaby MESSINA
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About the Item

I was born in Martínez, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 16, 1971. I am the Sun in Pisces, the Moon in Scorpio and ascendant in Cancer. Younger daughter. Lover of family life and animals. My primary studies begin in a nun's college for young ladies. I never adjust and in 6th grade I ask my parents to move me to a coeducational school across the street from my house. I finish high school there, and start studying Advertising at the Foundation for Higher Studies in Commercial Sciences. In January 1992 my father died in our house in a tragic event. We moved with my sister and my mother to an apartment. That same year I began to work in different activities related to Advertising. I get a job in an Advertising agency and work in agencies for the next ten years. In the meantime, I buy myself my first professional camera. I study black and white photography, and camera management with Fernando González Casanuevas. I leave agencies forever to dedicate myself professionally to advertising photography. I work in a major studio, incorporating the professional use of studio lighting and film development. I do a color photography workshop with Alberto Goldestein. I open a photography studio. Study with Marcos López and the possibility of doing a workshop with Humberto Rivas. I discover photography as a means of expression. The work in progress of Grandes Mujeres begins. I did my first solo show in 2004: Great Women photographic portraits of older women in their daily surroundings, curated by Juan Travnik, March 2004, Photo Gallery of the San Martín Theater. Before the show ends, I get pregnant with twins. And at the beginning of December 2004, Pedro and Félix were born. At the age of 3 he presented Almas Gemelas photographic portraits and documentary film of twin brothers and sisters of all ages curated by Clelia Taricco, 2007 at the Recoleta Cultural Center. During the following years, I visit a town called Lima weekly, located 100 kilometers from the city of Buenos Aires, and where one of the most important nuclear power plants in the country is built. My children were between 4 and 5 years old, immersed in a childhood world full of fictions and fantasies that lead me to my own childhood. Surreal images inspired by people's stories and their own fantasies. I present Lima, kilometer 100 at the Recoleta Cultural Center, 2010. I am lucky to meet Gustavo Santaolalla, who writes and publishes the book with his Retina imprint. After two years I work, this time, on my own story. I narrate my father's death in dialogue with religious beliefs. I rescue original slides of my father intervened by biblical passages in large images, experimental videos and small sculptures. During the next 4 years he developed an ambitious project: Photographing portraits, and recording in a documentary film the most important plastic and visual artists in the country, over 65 years old in the country and abroad. Presents Teachers, the forest and the tree , 112 portraits and documentary film at the National Museum of Fine Arts, 2016. Director: Andrés Duprat. Since 2016 I have been working on the Argentina Afro project .Thanks to the support of the Foreign Ministry and the embassies, during 2019 I presented videos, installations and images in South Africa, Mozambique and Nigeria. I am currently working on this project.

Creator:

Gaby MESSINA (1971, Argentinian)

Dimensions:

Height: 39.5 in (100.33 cm)Width: 39.5 in (100.33 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)

Medium:

Photographic Paper

Movement & Style:

Modern

Period:

21st Century

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